Lady&#39;s handbag



P 1961 P. SCHLUMBOHM 2,999,522

LADYS HANDBAGE Filed NOV. 2, 1959 IN V EN TOR.

Patented Sept. 12, 1961 2,999,522 LADYS HANDBAG Peter Schlumbohm, 41 Murray St., New York 7, NY. Filed Nov. 2, 1959, Ser. No. 850,273 1 Claim. (Cl. 150--28) The invention refers to lady's handbags.

The invention is illustrated by way of examples in FIG. 1 to FIG. 4 of the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a vertical cross section of the new handbag.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a modification of the new handbag.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another modification of a ladys handbag.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a third modification of a ladys handbag.

All three modifications, as shown in FIGS. 2, 3, and 4, basically retain the features of the vertical cross section given in FIG. 1.

As shown in FIG. 1, the bag 1 has a top wall 2 and conical side walls 3. A shadow box space 4 is created at the bottom of the bag by providing the side walls 3 with a recessed bottom wall 5. A mirror 7 is glued to the inside of the bottom wall 5. Following the inven tion, this shadow box space 4 is walled by side walls 6 which are conical and whose conicity is identical with the conicity of the side walls 3 of the bag. Thus the recessed bottom section has side walls of double strength to stand the wear and tear of general handling. The top wall 2 of the bag has an opening 8 which can be closed by a lid 9 which can be swung out horizontally around a rivet 10 and which can be locked by a lock 11. A handle 12 is anchored in the conical side walls 3 by rivets 13 and 14.

The construction has the advantage that the side walls 3 with the top wall 2 can be vacuum formed from plastic material and the same technique can be applied to drawing the shallow body comprising the wall and the side walls 6. Providing the same conicity for the conical side walls 3 and 6 greatly reinforces the rigidity of the bag 1 and allows the use of material of thin wall thickness which influences favorably the fabricating time and the price.

This general advantage of the structure of a ladys handbag is not limited to the conical design of FIG. 3 where the horizontal cross section would be a true circle. The value of this multiple conicity wall structure is retained in the modification of FIG. 2 where the horizontal cross section is an oval, and in the modification of FIG. 4 where the horizontal cross section is rectangular. The dotted lines in FIG. 2, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 indicate the position of the recessed bottom wall 5 of FIG. 1.

In using the mirror, the handbag is placed to rest on its side wall 3 at a preferred level and this positions the mirror 7 at an angle to the face of the viewer which facilitates viewing. The shadow box efiect of the space 4 is, of course, optically very beneficial. Fabricating such a bag from plastic material like Royalite (a registered trademark of the US. Rubber Co.) allows for the first time the manufacturing of a seamless, all-plastic bag. Seams normally are a necessity where the top walls of a bag, or the bottom walls of a bag, join the side walls. It is a special feature of this invention to apply the vacuum forming technique of plastic sheet material to provide integral walls forming the top Wall 2 and the side Walls 3. Equally advantageous is to avoid seams between side walls and bottom walls by the bonding of the two conical elements 3 and 6 and by providing integral walls for the recessed bottom wall 5 and the conical side walls 6. The outer surface of the conical side walls 6 and the inner surface of the conical side walls 3 can be very easily glued together and the identical conicity of both walls greatly facilitates the bonding.

The new structure also provides for a mirror which not only is of larger size than so far feasible in conventional constructions, but it also improves the optical possibilities of the mirror by providing the shadow box space 4 and resting the mirror at an angle to the viewers face when resting the bag on its conical side walls 3.

I claim as my invention:

A ladys handbag characterized by nested elements comprising a first conical element and a second conical element, each said element having a top Wall, an open bottom and conical side walls with an upper section adjoining the top wall and a lower section adjoining the open bottom, the conicity of the side Walls being identical, the diameter of the top wall of the second element corresponding to a diameter of the lower section of the conical side walls of said first element; the lower section of the conical side walls of said first element extending towards the open end beyond the top wall of the second element and being in contact with the lower section of the conical side walls of said second element, said contact being sustained by bonding means such as glue to reinforce the lower section of the conical side walls of both elements at the common open end of the two elements, the top wall of the first element having an opening to allow access to the space below it and a closure for said opening; a mirror corresponding to the diameter of the upper section of the side walls of the second element and fastened to the top wall of said second element, said mirror facing the com mon open end of the two conical elements, said top wall of said second element being recessed far enough from said open end to let the side walls of said second element form a shadow-box to shade the mirror against the light which illuminates the face of the viewer.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,055,569 Zolotow Sept. 29, 1936 2,845,973 Strong Aug. 5, 1958 2,852,055 Rona Sept. 16, 1968 2,927,618 Hyman Mar. 8, 1960 

